Yossi Huttler
By Yossi Huttler
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News A Shavuot Poem
Holaich VeChazaik (Growing Ever Stronger) follow the lines down pages flowing back through ages commentary to makor pasuk, word, letter even to the Pintele Yid echo an ancient shofar blast growing while blowing announcing a Decalogue introducing a dialogue that will never leave mouths debating, deliberating in the din of batei medrush attempting to divine…
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News Pirsum
curving branches of lit menorah widen into glowing grin growing into smile spreading like the rumor of a miracle rippling out from a moment in time radiating waves of warmth waves of light The poet is a prosecutor and oral historian living in Staten Island.
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News Ruach She’ainah Meztuyah
in a small spot where shadows once fell from towers a modest succah quietly rises and descends in a space of just over one week the builder expects that it will come down no climate control no alarm system only comfort and security of belief in He who lovingly commanded him to live in it…
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Culture Molad
in the evening sky I caught sight of an arcing sliver of moon; I hung my hopes on that thin white ledge clinging to a larger dark circle I could discern only in outline having lost track of our time, I wondered: had the month just begun or just ended and in the coming nights…
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